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MRS 601 – Biostatistics
On an outcome-based course which emphasizes both the theoretical and the practical aspects of biostatistics. This course presents the fundamental concepts in description biostatistics of laboratory data analysis of one, two, three, or more samples. Topics include discrete and continuous probability models, expectation, hypothesis testing and confidence for means, proportions, and counts, maximum likelihood estimation; sample size determination non-parametric and parametric methods
graphical displays and data transformations.

MRS 602 – Bioethics
Designed to make the nursing graduate student recognize the significance of the discipline of Bioethics or Ethics in Health Care Delivery the management of health care institutions especially hospitals. It should stimulate and encourage them as health care professionals and executives as health care practice is essentially an ethical practice. It is expected that they develop ethical consciousness and reasoned analytical judgment as a necessary part of health caring, thus making them conscientious nursing managers with moral standing.

MRS 603 – Theoretical Foundations in Nursing
This course deals with the philosophical and theoretical perspectives of nursing practice. it interprets and analyses existing concepts, theories, and principles that serve as the basis for nursing practice, education, and research. It also involves identification of problems, issues, trends, and other forms of phenomena prevailing in a dynamic field of nursing practice that may lead to the development of new theories, and models focusing on man as a holistic being. It strengthens the problem-solving and decision-making process making nursing truly eclectic.

At the end of the course, the graduate student in nursing shall be able to apply specific nursing models or theories in certain case scenarios or patient-care milieu or even research proposals. Discussions of published researches using nursing models and theoretical frameworks shall also be included.

You will need to book the accommodation after you have been accepted.

You can choose to live on campus or off campus in private accommodation.

• Make a booking online after you have been accepted (in this case please let us know your choice when you apply).
• Register when you arrive - its not possible to reserve a room before arriving. You can arrive a few days before and book it